The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 03, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 30, 1892 Page: 2 of 7
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ITU unilQF'1 compulsed us on every liir.a; thevrlnflwM Wh ?thymine's bread THE 1? ARM
REDRUTH HOUSE, 1 •** «*.*«- - &* to you and
AND HOME.
or, Th Matter of the Mint.
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.
CHA1TF.* IV.—CONTINUED.
We bad K'll Falmouth behind
moving oun.brousjy along the high road.
Looking to ti., right and to the left I could
see nothing but undulating w« l
bleak and barren, with the stony hlghwajr
atretehitu before us, and w'nd'"« ^'ut' Wg
pent fashion, until it was lost to view. Wo
were traveling westward, evidently, and as
far as prospect went, we might be KoU,Sto -
wanl into the desert. 1 here was not a cart
or horse or human beina to be seen any-
where- and the only sound was the rattle of
the wagon, as it passed along over the rough
""u was past mid-day, and the sun was as
hot as it had been any day that summer. As
1 felt It scorching my face and liMd,I look-
ed at my companion, and marveled again.
His huge ulster-coat was buttoned up to his
el,In and his great round face was shaded by
his brood felt hat. He was by no meeuiin
bad-looking man, and he wsu stiU youne
only tive-ond-thirty, or thereabout!. His
.kin was tanned and weather-beaten, and lito
eyes were fixed upon the mare with his ha
bitual dreamy stare.
Finding it was useless to .'xpertlitin to
talk, 1 sat for a time quietly by his side,
watching, with some amount ot il'^ree-.11'®
rough and stony track we were following,
then, when we had covered a mlleoi so, the
mare went along at a walk. an. 1 leapt light-
ly into the road and kept pace beside her.
Mv change of position once more aroused
my companion from his trance; he turned
his eye slowly upon me, ami said:
"I reckon you knaw a den I?"
1 replied, modestly, that 1 knew a thing or
1 wonder naw," he said, "whether you
rai\u.swcicd with some decision that I cer-
tainly could, at which 1 thought his ace fell.
"Poetry, naw?" he Inquired. W arses
li,VI replied, that though I was able to write a
capital hand. 1 hail only once or twice aspired
to original composition; at which lie chuck-
led delightedly, then, fixing s eyes with a
fascinated glare upon my f e, he repeated
in a high siirill voice the to wing lines:
"To Missus Poudrngon. who always so picas-
John "tu'iM. "f St. Ouriott's, brings this little
Mav tier iff" be as sweet ns host sugar can be,
Ami the only hot water he mixed wP her leal
"What do you think o' that?" he asked,
^™Uf The carrier Jumped'down, sand me r VennMock 5ay, 'taint safe,father,"
watted for me to do the same; then >e gave JA i "And Tom ought to know,
a peculiar whistlo as he w«.t rwudto'U there ever since he was
hark of the wagon to haul out my trunk.
Tlie whistle had it, effect. The darkness
was suddenly penetrated by a
seemed quite close to us, and amaus voice
called out in a broad country dialect.
'•lie that you, John Rudd.
••lss, mate," returned Kudd.
hoiii o' the young gentleman.
' lie knaws no more than this chunk o^
bread little woman. He's the idlest chap o
the gang, Tawm is. There, dawn t you
worrit. 1 lie Lowd's under the earth as well
as above it, and '11 take care of father, never
A NOVEL METHOD OF BANKING
UP CELERY.
Growing Outs on Ittch Soli Hiring Help-
Homln* "id I'oUtn Tops- kl.n
Milk Calves - Farm Notes
and Home Hints.
Banking l'p Celery.
b "Bo tills the lad?" asked the voice, as 1
felt a heavy hand laid upon m) shoulder.
• Waal, my lad, you be welcome to SL Gur-
lott's!"
The most laborious operation in the harrowing. Ideally, among
Is left in poor condition for wedln*to
grass when the oat crop w.'^ely
cultivated in on tho com stiuk heli
The corn rows are not propel lj
literated and when the field is In grass
! they are readily noticeable, l°ok
tidv nnd make tho mowing machine
seat a hard place for the driver,
i Then there are the advocates
| shallow covering for oats. Some even
say that oats allowed to merely thaw
! into the fall-plowed soil will ^ake
i good crop. Others believe in driUinSt
the crop and then rolling ufter liboia
r -- ^— 80 many
JAPANESE LACQUER.
A so-all Tr.e,lt<« Jute, of Which Make.
a Capital VaruUU. -■
A v«ry interesting oxporlmont haj 1
rccentlv been recorded as having been ^
conducted at Frankfort by I rof ' ^a
of llonn so well known for his splen-
dl.ilv illustrated works on Japanese
One of the principal of these
44You catch
Iho'gowtthe ,c !^en ,n my corneri j slipped on my
ssaaftssia >••*- * ssrss«-■*•T <*
there and she took me to a littlo bedroom up- Various devices have been in- ln0bt practical and successful,
stairs', where I washed, and brushed my hair. vented t0 lesson tho labor, such us the - ^
Descendini again to the quaint old kitchen, u90 of ule paper, boards and so salt Mak
... « «u..ir .— ♦" "" 1 nle supposed mystery
arts.
in", in which no
guide saying, heartily:
"Yor be lie. Martha!"
Then another voice, that of a woman, an
swrred:
a„d I found my aunt. Just come in from feeding ( th but there aro objections to all The supposed mystery about tho
and . nod: then. ^ and ig tho oxl,enso of uge of .alt is very easily solved. In
usin" thorn on a largo scale. Some- tbo smuU quantities to which it in ap-
tlmes. in a small garden, they do )llied t0 |nnd it promotes the decom-
Wrrw hv .l-.vll.rht. lad! Ay, nicely. Another objection to such ,IO3it;0n of vegetable matter. I tils,
I was rlght—yoif bo as like your poor father things is that when it comes cold. woll aa the dissolution of the salt it-
as one pea Is like another. Lawd forbid you ircez[ng weather, as it will sometimos. self furnisho3 solvents
should e'er be half as clever!" ^ ^ ^ ^ beforo the^celery can bo put away for which is one of tho bos
The hand kept hold of my shoulder and , t, u]try- she gave a kindly nod; then,
led me along. The next thing 'became down ,t the table, drew me gently to
conscious of was standing upon 'l'*t,'ri*h her, and, pushing the hair off my forehead,
old of an open door, and of tho voico ot m> looke(, t|10l,g|,tfully Into my face.
"Lawd lov
e the lad; let's look at'unl"and "Why not, mother?" asked Annie, who wjntor wi1fh such slight covering the fcnown. Applied
carbonic acid
tho 1
in largo amounts
then there was silence. was looking on with * .mile. plant will almost invariably freeze. u ig the averse of this, Pr®*entl°f i | "u ^
"'-of a "Uecsu.0 he were too clever tosattle down. ^Qt Qnly the topSi but the stalks, and dec- mposltlon. as is well known to all I lecung
Mfts is that of lacquer _
other nation can excel the
The art is one of great anti^lt>'^nd
the old examples are ^rj costly.
The laciuer. unlike the European
varnishes and polishes, which aia
compound substances, oonsists of tho
juice of a email tree known to botan-
ists as Khus vernicifera. and this juice
, draw n from the trunk, by making
incisions in them, from which it flows
into bamboo pots placed to receive it
The juices of this ami all other
snocios of Khus are extremely acrid
and poisonous, blistering the .km se-
ve'-ely if allowed to come in contact
with it ( on.e |uently tho Japanese
collectors use thick gloves to cover
! the hands during the process of col-
that will tend to
than ever the utter forlornness^ of my posi- | h)en lhlg ,„b wU1 be received with
niwi emit fhft tp«ii"s SL.utim: to my e\es. n • :n tVirt
Hon, and sent the tears starting to my eyes. _
1 fancy Anuie noticed this, for she quickly favor, I know, says
changed tho subject, asked her mother lor Ohio 1- armor Hero
some more hot scoues, and put achair for me for the past three, y
at the table. . „„
This diversion gave me ample time to re-
cover myseir. Keeling heartily ashamed of
mv exhibition of weakness, 1 swallowed the
lump In my throat, dashed the back of niy
hand across my eyes, and determined tiom
that hour forth to remember that tears did
not become "a man."
The breakfast was appetlzlng-perhaps
writer in tho
at. the station,
en.wi wo have been
raising our celery in l.ctls about four
feet wide, and the plants six inches
by one foot apart This method, by
the way possesses some advantages
that aro not gained hy tho usual way
of planting in rows. Tho way
of
"Where did you
anxiously.
"Very pood," 1 roj> lod.
read it? In a hook?" „
' I didn't read 'un master, I wr t un, in
replied. "Leastways, I should ha wrote 'un
It I could write. Naw, you'in a smart chap,
pr'aps yon could take thorn lines dawn.
"Ot course 1 could," 1 replied. hereup-
on 1 produced a pencil from my waistcoat
pocket, and. asking Mr. Kudd to repeat the
verse again, I transcribed it on the back of
an old letter.
When 1 handed up the paper to Mr. Kudd,
his face became positively gleeful.
"You're a smart chap," lie repeated, nawt
much doubt o' that."
"Do you make mtic'v poetry. 1 asked,
lie nodded his head slowly.
"A goodlsh bit," he replied; "leastways, I
should if I'd alius a stuart'tin like 5 oust
hand to take 'un dawn. But I'm naw hand
at setting dawn at it, and it dawn t alius
keep in my head. Tlsa gift," he continued.
"It all began when l were a lad, ""driving
up and dawn Falnio.uth way wl 1
Then 1 used to hear the old wagon go turn
to turn' alawng the road, and wnrscsthey
came and kept time. Lord! to think the
thousands of boollful pomes 1 ha made
they'd make a walluni; and 1 vo got . ill all
here In my head, thick as bees In a beehhe,
all a-buzzing together, one atop a t other.
"Do you live at St. Gurlott's, Mr. Kudd.
-Jss, voung master; 1 drives this here van
dn-oe times a ueek to Falmouth and back.
"Then perhaps I'll h;> able to take dow n
some of your poems for you. 1 am going to
live there, too, you know!"
This idea pleased tho drowsy giant im-
mensely. lie was about to expatiate upon
it, when a heavy rain-drop tailing on Ins
hand brought him back from the flo"|l,;.h
I found myself standing In the middle (
quaint Cornish kitchen,
newly-found friends. ""
hail ln«l me Into the ! 1
out to bo my uncle,
| |£3St.'We'/uVirmkrrmanol 'ee, ^oUl cales.'wo have towmoback
and broad and'ver^roil, Sj^hea'd warUiickly j '°ThUsiidden^l'usion to my dead parenls, '^.'t'^r'tho celery that is
cover, d with coarse black hair, and lie spoko coupi,..l with the stmutjene*s o •' J ib, grown.
the broadest of Cornish dialect a™ce of roundlngs, brought beforemen Now anything
thunder. Having finished my inspection of
number otie.l glance# at numbertwo-name-
ly, my annt. She was a comoly looking wo-
man of forty, very stout and motherly n ap-
pearance. She woro a cotton dress, a largi,
coarse apron, and a curious cap, not unlike
the cotfi so popular hi Brittany.
My amazement at the sight of those two
Individuals was so strong that 1 could scaice-
ly force my lips to utter a word; but if my
surprise was great, theirs seemed greater.
Alter the first glance at me, they looked un-
eusily at one another, the genial «m"e fad^
from their faces, and the words ot welcome
died upon their lips.
A pleasant interruption to all this was
John Kudd, who at this moment came in
with my trunk upon his shoulder and placed
it down 011 tho kitchen floor, theu wiped his
brow and opened his overcoat. .,,
"It's niartal bad weather you 111 brought
alang wl' ye, Mr. Kudd," said my_au.it,
••yar, ha' sununat to keep off the rain.
She handed him a glass ot ale, which he
II "Thank ye. missus," said he, drawing the
back of his hand across his mouth. Then he
made a dive Into the voluminous lolds ot his
coat, and produced a packet.
"That be for you, missus, said lie, a in
tie present, wl' J lm Rudd's respects, tea
and sugar, wi' a suitable inscription o mj
awn making." , tt 4 , _v
"Thank you, Mr. Kudd," returned my
aunt taking the packet "\on'm vary kin i.
"Head tho warses, missus, read tlie
warses!" said Mr. Kudd wlioroupon sho pro-
ceeded to do so. ,. .
It was a proud moment for John Kudd, he
to oxpand with pleasure. And
position, us is well Known uu ai. crullo juic0 has boon
who luvvo kept anything .After prepared in
rnd liberate, ilrtwn from the tree it 1 1
into insolu- dlflorent ways by lll° fa',,l"P8®nii it
ineral fertil- | ports, and tho process o!
o wood or metal work is a very
tedious ono, and ono which can on y
bo properly effected by a na"v«
Tho modern lacquerware of Ja-
<
tlst
pan.
tide from
domain? in the European market, for
pan. however, is a totally different ar-
that of 100 or oven 100
There is at present a great
Farm Note*.
Any of the sorghums will withstand
drouth much better than corn.
It is difficult to carry on tho farm to
an advantage with only one lino.
Taking ono year with another it is ^ uel.e(] articles.
tho early planted corn that yields io , o( wbich they have to be pro-
best. , ! iuce(1 quickly and in largo quantities,
Spocial farming cannot be adopted a very inferior article is pro-
witli any degreo of safety as to the re- , ■ ^ botb in design and finish,
suits. I Nevertholoss. tho process of lacquer-
With all crops tho farmer should j ^ has nevor been mastered by i-uro-
handUng:Bas 'thus described by a well- | try to raise the maximum number of
known writer on rural sub.ecto-'tho bushels per aero
tine reason why many
from'the very' strangeness of it Never be- ; pardoner now gots on his knees, 8trad-
fore in my life had 1 had placed before me, dlin? tho row, and gat.ieiing up all
ut eight o'clock in tho morning, a meal of I tho stuiks of ono plant after another,
hot scones, boiled potatoes, and milk; yet 1 , in big loft hand, packs tlio soil hrmly
mlghtilv pleased my aunt by disposing of , ,ir0UH(j v.-itli his right to retain thehi
enough to keep me going for the rest of the l ^ ^ Ron)pact !in(i e«f et. position —
day. . , . . . I seoIT jd to be out of place in our beds.
"Ah! lad," she exclaimed, as lier bright | ^ string by winding once
s! esc
proud stomach, my lad, and wilt be a man | enough to hold the stalks in place,
flke vour uncTe before lawng." I This was a decided improvement over
The breakfast being over, my aunt and the ,,.fly of holding the stalks in place
Annie busied themselves with "setting things , by earth until the rtist of the soil was
to rights;" and, feeling somewhat in the put !a but when it came to tamng the
way, I took my cap and strolled out, to find
out if I could what sort o£ a country 1 had
farmers fail
P°U has been tried by practical var-
ni.hmakers in this country—says In-
> reason « ujr nisuunvtv^i^ ^ f
ko a profit is because they have i lluslries. an English periodical
1 I ... unrl It. IS nOW
been landed in.
The kitchen door opened directly into the
"back yard," as they called it, and here I
found the poultry ^^^ly plckli^up ^
a mongrel
breakfast.
no settled policy.
System in farming embraces reg- ;
ular order in planning the work and
executing tho same.
i Wood ashes is ono of the best fer-
tilizers that can bo used on grass
lands; scatter broadcast
Think about th;s. Aro you a farmor
because you inherited a farm, or be-
causo you love farm iife.
Kemember the go-casys are going to
the wall, it's tho gritty, enterprising
fellow that stays on top.
More corn per acre can be raised by
string olf tho soil would be tramped
around the plant and the leaves and
umur part of tho stalk would be torn r._. .. - - ,
off and tho timo it took in removing , of cultivation is increased,
it, rjado us almost want to go back to
the way of holding it up with our
bands." All sorts of suggestions^ wero
always without success, and it i. now
thought by Prof. Kern that if tho
treos"could be established in Europe
and the juice freshly drawn from the
trunks some of the difficulties of its
I manipulation might bo overcome
j Considering that several species, of
I Khus aro hardy plants in our shrub-
beries, there is. perhaps no reason
whv Khus vernlcefora should not be
included among them. Indeed, this
question seems set at rest by the
that a number of healthy trees, some
thirty feet high, aro now nourishing
I at Frankfort, the trees originally
drill planting, but generally the work j ' ,anted there'having produced seed.
i,w„.>nn I. increased. 1 ' ...v.t„v, rtthfli* trees have been
very'trim and neat; and there was avery
small garden here, which was tolerably well
cultivated; 1 afterward learned it belonged
to Annie, and owed its pretty appearance cn-
thm.gh to all"hitents and PurP°* J* I ment'lmade my'a^p^arance, came wriggling,
gazing upon Mrs. Pendwgon, be w'l 6erpent fashion, about my feet.
eve round my way, as if to watch thei effec ; [i(1 thr0Hgh the yard, round to the
upon me. When tho reading was donei lie frout of (|u! housPi tho puppy following close
.miiod affably, while my unc e brought down heel3 The fr0nt of the cottage was
his open hand heavily upon his knee. j -
•■Waal done, John, waal done! cried n y
uncle, heartily; while another voice one
which 1 then heard for the first time, said, j
"Oh, Mr. Kudd, what beautiful poetry jou
d0ZTlhe'sound of the voice, all eyes, mine
amongst the rest were turned upon the speak-
er. wliom I discovered to be a little Sir's<)™^
what about my own age. or P^rl,al), ft '^9
votinger, so pretty, and so quaintly dressed,
she looked like a little Dresden china shep-
herdess.
• Wlia, Annie!" said my aunt.
"I declare I'd forgot all about ee! my
uncle added. "Come yar, my lass, and say
how do ye do to yer cousin!
At this, the little girl came torward, and,
gating earnestly it me, timidly offered me
^p^y,"a~rort of0cross°betweer^a collie and a j mude to got rid of tho trouble of lak;
grey'houVdTi't seemed to me, which, the mo- I itlj, 0|f tho string, until omoono
■ • mmn wrimrllng. I thought that impor string might do,
and it would rot off and not hurt tho
plant.
to hunt all over the city of Columbus.
It seems to have gone out of use. but
we finally found what we wanted.
Alter getting it we put it on several
waited to
I _ other trees
Selling all we produce and buying
what we consume helps the railroads
if it does not help ourselves.
If in working the horsss they get
too warm take care to cool them oft
gradually and less harm will be done.
Don't refuse to grow clover because
you do not understand why it benefits
J ■ - J'-ir crops, neither . „
what power the liesides this tlie native and -" P
juices have been analyzed by German
from which
The next question seemed to bo
whethor the changed cond.tions of
growth and climate would in any way
affoct the nature or composition of the
juice, and to prove this some of the
trees at Frankfort have been tapped
and the juice sent to Japan to be ex.
in'order to get Hueh string we had ^e land"ror"succeeding crops, neither | perimented with by the
do you understand by
tirelv to her hands. It was a curious illus- I thousand plants and then
tration of the mingling In her of the useful j see if any injury was done. When
and ornamental. She was passionately fond tho piants were taken out for the w in-
of flowers, and two-thirds of her little garden , found that very little injury
was devoted to them, while in the other third I s dsin& and this happened by the
were beds of mustard and cress radishes, | ejes8putting on of tho string, 'ihe
and celery, with which she regularly supplied , ^less p^ ^
"relishes" for the table.
TO BE CONTINUED.
reapingthe human face.
An Older ami More Mystertoui Science
Thau Phrenology.
plants were held in position by a strip#
uutil a rain came and settled the dirt
around the plant and wet tho string
enough so it would give way to tho
growing plant Some of the plants
cave a second banking before the
1 l . . . 4 U nlnnf
her hand.
uddenly, John ku.-, . .
hling about his coat again. P™duced another
nacket which he this tune handed to my
v iuv.. i If nAntflill-
string gave way and let the plant
1 have helped try a good many
Everyone knows that men's passions 6j)rea(j
!cwas &%&££>!jxztrr•sz^ «...•
sun appears each day.
Is the manure pile under tho eaves
of the barn? And do you buy com-
mercial fertilizer? If these questions
are answered in the affirmative, y ou
I are on the highway to ruin.
!loim> Hints.
While every advantage should be
taken to avoid it yet it is better to
I replant corn, potatoes and cane than
to cultivate a poor stand.
A good many farmers could make
more"money by giving better attention
to their own crops and not spending
so much time watching their neigh-
bor's crops.
Lawd love the lad 1" he exclaimed,
we be a-loitcring. Here, jump up, young
master, we'm got a good twelve mi e atoie , — - ,, h somc
ns yet, and a black night piawn.lslng to M[ ^ wc
Ttook the hand which he extended to me. I ceedod to read the lines :
nnd which looked like a giant's paw, am,
sprung
U"nlid'the mare's slow walk broke into a
faces, but it is only the few who have worked so weil from tne staru tu.= « "" "J0i thQ former to melt In
rl cousitT sile o'pfned it, and found it contain- made the studv of physiognomy ^ , onc did. We invented a little device 11 Sn'a' J h lnd sw.dlow; this is said
1 ed a brightly colored shawl and a sheet of M pur8uit who are gifted with , for puttlng tho string on. First we your mouth and im,
■ , , .—c lines were penned. power of reading those faces, i h ld the bau jn our hands, but this to be used by S
eakness, Annie pro- g whQ have served long terms on wa8 inc0nvenient So ono day I went Parsley i. entirely effectual ^
the bench, lawyers in large practice. lnt0 the shop and took a tomato can moving the odor of onions alter a
and doctors of eminence, possess the and punohed a hole through the hot- meal. The green sprig, sh
: up to mv seat beside him.
rry up. Martha," he said, "get on, old
pari," I
trot, which caused uiu nus"" ; -
shake, and mv teeth to clatter m niy hea 1.
Thepr.i-pcct still continued bleak but it
was now not quite so desolate. To the righ
and left of us still stretched the bleak moor-
"To Annie Pondragon, who charms all behold-
John Hudd,of St. Gurlott's, sends this for her
That
she h always bo happy, In sunshine and
power" of interpreting physiognomies | ^om 'ot lt nai.ed it to a stick, and eaten as celery is with tho omo^ or
largely than other people, but then with a pice of pantaloons sus- ( with the potato salad, not lert to
ii •• t- . -l.i— /notnnari ^ taken after dinner or supper.
more
anyone can acquire the rudiments of , pcnder. with the buckles, fastened
the art by dint of hard study. 1 the right arm above tho elbow, and The following process is said to re-
' impossible to disguise a face at tho wri3t, letti.ig the string run out gtore t0 tt waterproof the original
i . . ii I. *e .1 K.if urnpn
Tf is as lmpossiuio W — I at mo wnau 4
C with out putting on a mask) as it is to at the bottom of the can and between goftness: Dissolve a teaspoonful
disguise one's handwriting. When tho thumb and h-ont finger. With best gray lime in half a P®11'11'
the expert comes the disguise is torn | this ona can wind celery all day, if watel. wipe tho cloak well with a soft
off and tho face tells the true story of his back does not got to aching too cloth wrung loosely out of this ml -
the spirit Inside the body. One only bad. This is all the drawback I have , ture> hang to dry and repeat
needs to visit the penitentiary to real- found to it yet j operation in two hours.
land but now it was broken up by green
locks and b'lts of woodland. Here andthere
on the meadows were cattle grazing, wlille «
intervals were whitewashed cottages with
little gardens running down to the roadside.
From time to time we rounded some quiet
bay, and caught a glimpse of the |
entlv far ahead of us, 1 saw clustering (
houses, troin the niidst of which arose a
church spire.
What is that!" I asked.
lie seemed to know by instinct what 1
meant, tor he replied withouttaklng his eyes
all the horse. .. . j
• That, young master, ba Cralgruddock
We'll stawp there for a bit of sununat to eat
and drink, and to gle the mare « rest
When we entered the village of Craigrud
dock our apiwarance caused no little stir.
John Kudd was evidently well known- for
as tho lumbering wagon went rattling dow
the little street shock-headed children came
peeping out of the doorways, and here and
there a peasant woman made her appearance,
and nodded cheerfully to us as we went by.
For each and all John Kudd had a good-hu-
mored grin, which 1 thought broadened a ,
little as the wagon was pulled up with n Je k
liefore the door of tho inn licw.after some
little trouble, we got something'to, e;it. a ^e ,
boiled eggs, and some home-baked bread
When the horse had been rested, wc staited
again on our Journey.
The wann day was succeeded by aeo a
evenlne nd with the darkness had come
nun. I was glad to follow John Kudd s ex-
ample, to wrap myself well «|)'"XL^ihe
, .at, before 1 again look my scat laHilnd ttie
mare. We jolted ou again, coming what
seemed to me ..u interminable space. ho
darkness rapidly increased, tto ra^ «ontU.-
ued to fall, and, worn out with fatigue, 1 ftil
inU> a fitful doze. „. „
1 was dlmlv conscious of the wagon rolling
on. of John Rudd making occasional dis-
jointed remarks, rhythmical in chaiaUir, to
which he evidently expected no reply, and
„f certain stoppages, when Joli
lv disappeared, and returned retruhed and
i lengthened for his work.
A? length, however. John Rudd's voice
aroused me indeed. .,
Wawk up, young master, said lit,
Uior. WM noUiing to b. few, Pailaiw en-
•Tis tho wish
Rudd.'
Having read the verses, Annie fell to volu-
blv admiring them and the shawl; but Mr.
Kudd, feeling the praise too much for him,
gleefully took ids departure. Re paused at
the door, however, to give tne a last look,
and to express a wish that we should become
hotter acquainted. ___
Tho moment he was gone, attention. was
again concentrated upon me. My aunt took
a good look at me, trying to tindl trace.of my
mother and father in my face. My uncle diis-
covered 1 was both wet and cold, while An
nie said: ..
"Why don't you give him hlssupper.mot^-
cr; I'm sure he must he hungry after
long rido Wl' Mr. Kudd."
Annie'ssuggestio. was adopted, and we
all sat down to supper. While 1 ate, I had
! leisure to look
I large and
I clean stone-paved
<Iwfth 8hrlnm oyrtw
1 and broad, with
chemists, upon whose reports, cou-
pled with those of the Japanese art-
ists, it is expected that the fato of
lacquering as an industry in Europe
will stand or fall. If the reports
on the quality of the juice from Japan
be favorable it is proposed to plant
the tree largely and br ng over some
expert workers from Japan to teach
their peculiar art to European stu-
dents. .
r There is. however, another use to
which tho Japanese lacquer tree
might be put should it prove to tako
so kindly to European soil as to pro-
duce its fruits abundantly. I hese in-
dividual fruits aro small—not much
larger than a pea but somewhat flat-
tened—and are borno in bunches or
clusters. They are covered with a
thin, light brown, shiny skin, under
which and immediately surrounding
the seed is a deposit of white wax.
which forms, with that of an allied
species (Rhus succodanea), the pro-
duct known as .Japan wax. which is
used by the Japanese for making can-
dles and is exported in large quanti-
ties to China and to this country to
some extent for a similar purpose, as
well as for making wax matches.
ize how undeniably vice writes its
sign-manual upon the features. It is
not the drunkard only whose red nose,
flabby cheeks and watery eyes betray
him; it is the sensualist whose vice
Only a small proportion of the so-
Sowlng | caiied codfish which has been sold
How to grow a maximum crop of w;thin tho past few years has been
oats on land rich enough io produce a genuine. The largo bulk of it has
bit crop of corn is still a conundrum | been f^e. Some of the gonulno.how-
BACKBONE.
4
is uiw Don3ut.4w. i ui' cru onundrum
read in his'lipT'thiTknave whose pro- "^-piexlng lo the minds of many ever can be gotten, and perhaps one
nensitv is revealed by the shape of his readBr8i including the writing hereof, of the m09t convenient ways of pur-
mouth and the man of violence who tha editor of Farmers Review. chasiag it i9 in a shredded form,
has been betrayed by his eyes. An \ye cannot afford to let the land down j-regh-water fish Is particularly nice
exnorienced detective or a trained in fertility by successive crops of corn ked in this way: Cut the fish in
expor . .. - . or,«,..rh t.n raise ., COver with fish stock,
more salt if needed and
gently for twenty minutes.
The stock may be thickened or tho
kvu iu oui - i ovnArienceu uuiev;i.i>ci « • . counou
look about me. The kitchonwas i P crime of whieh mak0 u poor on0ugh to raise u ;Q(,03i
1,0mfilJ J" U,U™T'mi.r great a prisoner is guilty; he can tell it on a ,.rop of oats. The rich soil raise aJd a u^tle m
paved floor ^ ttlteliea the criminal's face. In short, all the a heavy growth of straw and down t immel. cunt
«-s above, f~ ,«hkh Utmgmt ^ the cr m Vow,oi. toid U9 we when the first heavy rain or wind ofnolr r
, . j tv> fViA Qt.udv - Uooiil n licht c:
within It, for
rined of I 'V'ohrenology^ we may possibly gain a~d a twisted mass of straw, dimcul^
^Ush^hhukoak.and the lire burned on , lder !ltld m0re mysterious and expensive to harvest ^ow. both
- ' "vv«nrecess. Irulu . faoe.reading. —St. Louis tt g0od crop of straw and a maximum
crop of grain is absolutely necessary
of
Thus They Advertise.
the open hearth. In one corner was a recess,
with curtains, containing a bed, which I a t
erward discovered was to be mine for tlie Republic.
111 Very little was said or done that evening.
If 1 was astonished at tho sight of my rela-
tives, they were equally so at the sight of
me. A sort of constraint came upon us a I.
I wes not sorry to tind that they were ver>
early people, and that at ten o'clock they re-
tired, and left me to make myself "s c01"' juirement of the human family.
tunable as I could in the press bed In the quirt m ^ ^ ,h„,„ ran
kitchen. My head was aching, partly from
fatigue and partly from excitement, and no
sooner did 1 lay it upon the pillow tliau l
fell into a sound sleep.
in cultivation on farms where stock is
kept to consume all the crops. >\ here
The managers of a Brooklyn cemo- the grain is sold o'T cheap land, tho
^• advertise: "Graves finely situ- owner, as a rule, cares littlo for a gopd
the yeautios of ,.rnn of straw; but where it is a dcsid-
tery advertise
nteil. surrounded by
nature, commanding a fine view of tho
bay. aud. in short, meeting every re-
.,- p0O
pie Who have tried them cannot bo
persuaded to go elsewhere."
CHAPTER T.
ANNIE.
I was awakened next monlng by the sound
of voices In the chamber, and looking loi tli
from my sleeping-place, 1 saw my uncle,
seated in his stained flannel clothes, devour-
ing a substantia! breakfast of tea and home-
baked cakes of my aunt's making, waited on
by little Annie, Who, seen ill thebrig.it n.uin-
1 ing light, looked even cleaner and neater
than she had looked the night before,
"Lawd love'ee, little woman," my uncle
Puff* Hall*.
The great puff-ball fungus has been
known to reach tho size of a pumpkin
in a night. Lindloy calculated that
I the cells of which it is mado up mul-
. tiply at the
minute.
crop of straw. —
era mm, how can it bo obtained.
I'ractico differs very considerably as
regards (this subject, l'erhaps the
most common method of oat cultiva-
tion is to take several crops o corn
off the same land and then cultivate
the oats in on the flat with corn
cultivators and seed tho held down to
clover and timothj- at the same tune.
The farmers that follow this plan sa,y
that oats must bo got in deep to
Hollandaise sauce made with the
stock.
A sheet of glass—a window pane
for example—can bo cut as easily as a
sheet of cardboard. The secret con-
sists in keeping tho glass, the shears
and tho hands under water during tho
operation. '1 he glass can be cut in
straight or curved lines without u
break or a crack. This is because tho
water deadens the vibrations of tho
It Is Not Found in Those Who Give Up
Duty for Pleasure.
"Such fine manly fellows!' has been
said of many of those whose constant
habit was to give up duty for pleasure.
Hut the heathen moralist caiied this ^
effeminacy.
Others are made popular heroes be-
cause of their self-assertion and defl- _
ance of all proper restraint, 'lhat,
said the heathen moralists again, is
not manline-s but braggadocio.
Manliness means self-respect and re-
sistance. Tho first element we do not
so much need to dwell on. But the
word resis*—why. Dean Stanley used
to say it was the backbone of the
world.
Resist the insolent thing which
sometimes christens itself "public opin-
ion, " and which has often sanctioned
the most atrocious crimes.
Resist self, its evil passions, and
stride through difficulty as men do
through gossamer threads upoa tho
grass on a summer more.
Have a moral as well u- a physical
courage, l.et us strive for an asser-
tive truthfulness und an impetuous
of the shears comes out of tho water,
the vibration will be sufficient to mar
the success of the experiment.
To bake a potato you need a steady
oven and a good potato. Small pota-
toes take half an hour, moderate sized
do I potatoes take three-quarters of an
men it is mauo ui> iuui- .« —-- ^rowing i hour and larjo potatoes take, an hour
rate of sixty millions a well, and they do succet Thero i to bake. When thoy aro tender they
a pretty good cr^ of cato, inere ^ ^ Thoy should bo prlckod or
are however, at least two oo.ections | „u„w nlr to escape,
Queer Book*. _ to this plan: 1. Thc SOil has baan
served instantly. They aro spoiled
shears and tho glass. If the least part | ll0n0r
proposed at
( Qli urnvMu ^ I*.***.. — -
Japanese books begin at the end. an0Wed to go too long without a grass pi<|^d rhev are spoiled if
does best on rich soil
the title-page. Tho foot notes are nn({ makes such soil
the top of tho page, and the enabling the man who manures
the word finis coining^ where we put cr0p, for clover doe* ^ton ncuwa rtey^have'to stand. It" is a good plan
much ricner, in , ^ ^ potato0g in flrgt and
have a procession of the others ac-
cording to siza.
mmH, u.j printed at tuo vup ^ — euaunug —
wa, saving, "who put that «art o'nawnaense } ^adeP puts in his marker at the bot- cloVer to keep up and even improve
into your head! 1 warrant Tawm l'eurud- the fertility of Uls farm. ihe sou
dock, or some other gomeril,
A coarse toast was
Eton college, and all but one sprang,
up to drink it. Amid tho jeers ol liU
companions that young man remained'
seated, his glass upside down. 1113
name was \\. i.wai tt.l idstone.
Such men, says tho New York,
Ledger, enrich their day and genera-,
tlon beyond measure. This is manliJ
ness. _ I
Literary Intelligence* I
"How do you write an epigram,
Geoi-ge?"
• Oh, .ust say something mean, ift
two lines, and make this vhyme."—•
Texas SifUngs.
ha' been up
tem.
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